Vegetables.
- Phytolithus plantæ; grass, reeds, horse-tail, &c. found in the black slate called plate, immediately above the pit coal, in various parts of England.
- Phytolithus filices, ferns; ditto, Newcastle, &c.
- Rhizolithus, roots of trees and plants buried in the earth
- Lithophyllum, leaves of trees; at Knaresborough, also impressed in stone
- Carpolithus, fruits, particularly impressions of the cones of pines, hazel, oak
Fishes.
- Ichthyolithus siliquastra, fossile pods, often resembling half the pod of a lupine, &c. sometimes extremely minute, at other times near two inches long.
- Ichthyolithus vertebra, of various genera, often in pits and quarries, particularly at Richmond in Surrey, on the cliffs of Shepey Island, &c.
Insects.
- Enthomolithus cancri, claws, or parts of claws; in pits in several parts of England
Shrubs.
- Graptolithus dentrides, representing shrubs, plants, or moss; on various stones, slates, and flints, in many parts of England, &c.
III. VEGETABLES.
Having thus enumerated a considerable variety of articles in the animal and fossile kingdoms, the only part which remains to be noticed is that of vegetables. To any person possessing but a superficial knowledge of botany, it must be obvious that this branch of natural history is extensive in the extreme; and that, consequently, to point out but a small number of such plants as form interesting objects for the microscope, would greatly extend this list, already sufficiently large; for,